When I am afraid [which is more often, than I care to admit]

I don’t like to admit that I’m afraid. But the reality is that I am often afraid. I’ve shared over the past year with our church my struggle with anxiety. It doesn’t’ feel very manly to say, “I’m afraid.” In fact it doesn’t seem very godly to say, “I am afraid.” And I think for that reason far to many of us live secret lives of desperation.

The Bible talks a lot about fear. In fact, the most common command in the Bible is, “Do not be afraid.” And this has been somewhat problematic for me. Especially in the last few years when nightly anxiety attacks started to become a common experience.

I think the problem lies in how I’ve always heard this command of God. What I all too often hear is: It’s wrong to be afraid. You’re broken if…